Effects of marijuana on mental abilities question

[MattRoxx]

I occasionally smoke a joint with friends and the effects are to make me feel paranoid, tired, unfocused and all around stupid.

So pot makes you more self-aware. That's a good thing. :fencing: But you should probably try a sativa strain, it usually provides a more upbeat energizing buzz.

Pot is a gateway drug.

Yes, the gateway to feeling better
Beer is the real gateway drug. It's usually people's first experience with alcohol, and results in impaired judgement leading to very poor decisions and reckless behaviour.

So is alcohol. What makes pot more of a gateway is that it's illegal. Alcohol hooks you up with a bartender. Pot hooks you up with a drug dealer.

That said, I'd rather be around people who are drinking than people smoking pot: pot stinks to high heaven.

Beer breath is the worst.
Burning cannabis often has a sweet scent, and with vaping the smell is much milder and dissipates quickly.

 

[MattRoxx]

So my MD is willing to prescribe marijuana for sleep apnea. He uses it and he says it makes him mentally "elevated"


What mental effects should I expect? Will I be more or less mentally alert? What about my memory? What about my ability to socialize? Will I become more talkative? Will I to be seem to behaving silly to non users?


I will be taking dope before sleep so I will not be stoned during day unless I so choose

Have you gone foward with this? It's not quite as simple as your MD writing a prescription. There are many hoops to jump through.

 

[Yoga Face]

Have you gone foward with this? It's not quite as simple as your MD writing a prescription. There are many hoops to jump through.

1 MD writes prescription

2 you send prescription to supplier

3 supplier sends you license and dope in mail


easypeasy

 

[MattRoxx]

1 MD writes prescription

2 you send prescription to supplier

3 supplier sends you license and dope in mail


easypeasy

Wow, you're lucky.

How long did it take until you received your first delivery? Which LP are you registered with? What strain(s) did you select? Did you buy anything besides "dried marijuana"? And what is your cost per month?

and a PS: Anyone besides me going to the Karma Cup next month?

 

[Yoga Face]

How long did it take until you received your first delivery?

A few weeks

Which LP are you registered with?

there are quite a few

What strain(s) did you select?

Main choice is level of THC

Did you buy anything besides "dried marijuana"?

oil and it can get expensive if you use it every day


but all the dope store will sell to you cheaper if you have license although most have been closed down

Anyone besides me going to the Karma Cup next month?

What is that?

 

[Perry Mason]

Wow, you're lucky...

M'thinks someone's having you on! :nod:

Perry

 

[MattRoxx]

M'thinks someone's having you on! :nod:

Perry

Yes his replies are vague and don't follow the regulations as laid out by Health Canada. Still,

A few weeks


What is that?

 

[Yoga Face]

M'thinks someone's having you on! :nod:

Perry

absolutely not


" his replies are vague and don't follow the regulations as laid out by Health Canada"

I have no idea what the regulation are all I know is how I get legal dope

 

[lomotil]

absolutely not


" his replies are vague and don't follow the regulations as laid out by Health Canada"

I have no idea what the regulation are all I know is how I get legal dope

I believe the Health Canada Regulation is called the MMAR.(Medical Marijuana Acess Regulation).

 

[rhuarc29]

I'm definitely 420 friendly (and friendly to a lot more things too), but I think your doctor is misprescribing marijuana in your case.

A major problem with sleep apnea is that you tend to have trouble concentrating during the day. Marijuna before bed makes that worse because it inhibits REM sleep (you do feel like you had a good sleep though).

Surprisingly, we know very little about sleeping and its effects on mental function. Yes, marijuana does inhibit REM sleep, as do many sleeping pills. But they also tend to increase deep sleep. Which is more beneficial to your health? There are many theories surrounding the function of REM sleep, but very few proven facts. Some claim it has a rehabilitating effect on mental functions. Some claim REM sleep is the gateway to converting short-form memory to long-term memory.

It does seem strange that a doctor is prescribing a drug based on anecdotal evidence....

To answer the OP's question, you'll probably get better sleep and feel well-rested. But you may experience memory problems and feel "foggy" or not yourself as a result of reduced REM sleep.
As with most drugs, there are both positives and negatives.

 

[MattRoxx]

" his replies are vague and don't follow the regulations as laid out by Health Canada"

I have no idea what the regulation are all I know is how I get legal dope

What LP are you registered with?

there are quite a few

What strain(s) did you select?

Main choice is level of THC

but all the dope store will sell to you cheaper if you have license although most have been closed down

Reality check time.

Step 3: Register and Order with a Licensed Producer
Once you have obtained a medical document from your authorized healthcare practitioner, you can register as a client with the licensed producer of your choice.http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/access-acceder-eng.php

You register with 1 (one) LP. True "there are quite a few" but you can't send your Rx around and have multiple LPs fill it.
You choose one LP, register with them, and then select from their available strains. For example Tilray:

https://www.tilray.ca/en/products/

"Main choice is level of THC" doesn't even mean anything and would leave the LP as flabbergasted as me. It's about as nonspecific as saying, " I tell them, 'Send me a buncha that green mara-ju-wanna kthxbye' "

but all the dope store will sell to you cheaper if you have license although most have been closed down

Are you really buying monthly from LP or going to a local dispensary, like a Canna Clinic?
Or just going to Cannabis Culture where you don't even need a Rx ?

 

[MattRoxx]

I believe the Health Canada Regulation is called the MMAR.(Medical Marijuana Acess Regulation).

Yes, although technically in government bureaucratese, MMAR was repealed and ACMPR is now in effect.

 

[Yoga Face]

Reality check time.



You register with 1 (one) LP. True "there are quite a few" but you can't send your Rx around and have multiple LPs fill it.
You choose one LP, register with them, and then select from their available strains. For example Tilray:

https://www.tilray.ca/en/products/

"Main choice is level of THC" doesn't even mean anything and would leave the LP as flabbergasted as me. It's about as nonspecific as saying, " I tell them, 'Send me a buncha that green mara-ju-wanna kthxbye' "




Are you really buying monthly from LP or going to a local dispensary, like a Canna Clinic?
Or just going to Cannabis Culture where you don't even need a Rx ?

1 Yes, you have to choose one supplier. I never stated otherwise. You can change suppliers if you so choose.

2 I repeat, the only decision I made was to choose the level of THC ( I also chose oil) so I got one vial with high THC and one vial with very low THC. With medical dope the patient has to experiment then decide what works best. There are 100 cannabinoids in dope - THC is one of them - and it is a combination of the cannabinoids that work but they do not have complete knowledge on the efficacy of various cannabinoids

When choosing oil they do not ask what strain just level of THC. At least they did not for me.


I have never bought from a clinic but it is my understanding you need a license to do so but most of them have closed but a few defiant rebels are still open.

 

[lomotil]

The Federal government the faces the legal liability and ethical responsibility of ensuring that cannabis suppliers use safe methods for cultivation including proper storage, transportation and approved fertilizers and pesticides. What about GMO cannabis? Currently licensed growers satisfy Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Foods regulation. Illicit pot shops, recently some in Vancouver have been caught selling cannabis products which have banned pesticides and banned pesticides and fungicides not approved for human use. Ottawa did not warn the public about which stores were caught.

Also with Canada approving the possession and sale of marijuana for recreational use, what is stopping the USA, or China from exporting their product to Canada under the various free trade agreements. China could produce cannabis much at a lower cost, "Walmart Pot" for example.

 

[MattRoxx]

The Federal government the faces the legal liability and ethical responsibility of ensuring that cannabis suppliers use safe methods for cultivation including proper storage, transportation and approved fertilizers and pesticides. What about GMO cannabis? Currently licensed growers satisfy Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Foods regulation. Illicit pot shops, recently some in Vancouver have been caught selling cannabis products which have banned pesticides and banned pesticides and fungicides not approved for human use. Ottawa did not warn the public about which stores were caught.

Also with Canada approving the possession and sale of marijuana for recreational use, what is stopping the USA, or China from exporting their product to Canada under the various free trade agreements. China could produce cannabis much at a lower cost, "Walmart Pot" for example.

I don't think any USA growers could export cannabis to Canada since it is still federally illegal. It can't even legally be carried across state lines.

As for pesticides - do you have a link to the testing done by the government?
Good article about this in the Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...pensary-marijuana-to-findout/article31144496/

The problem dispensaries face is that the regulatory system devised by Health Canada – which is in charge of protecting public health – excludes them. Just as the public cannot legally test dispensary product at Health Canada accredited facilities, the dispensary industry also cannot legally access these laboratories.
Industry sources told The Globe that accredited laboratories have asked Health Canada to let them test these products for safety, but have been warned not to do so. This leaves consumers, including many who are visiting dispensaries thinking they are buying a government-sanctioned product, exposed.

This bothers me so much. For 40 years the government did not give a shit about cannabis quality and now that it is about to be legalized they're pretending to show concern?! But only for their own registered LPs.
Oh, and there's this:

Health Canada requires that medical marijuana be screened for about 70 pesticide compounds, to ensure that exposure levels are not above a certain threshold, usually a fraction of a milligram per kilogram of cannabis.

However, there is a troubling blind spot when it comes to screening out harmful additives in Canada.

Held to the standards set out by Health Canada, none of the nine samples of cannabis tested by The Globe turned up any problems with pesticide levels.

 

[Perry Mason]

...This bothers me so much. For 40 years the government did not give a shit about cannabis quality and now that it is about to be legalized they're pretending to show concern?! But only for their own registered LPs.

There are two problems here.

The first is that, as with all government, the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.

The second problem is that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

And the irony is that the people put in charge of dealing with the issues are the people who have the least understanding of them because they have no personal experience with Cannabis: the only thing they know about it is what they have read in a book...

Perry

 

[MattRoxx]

Yes his replies are vague and don't follow the regulations as laid out by Health Canada. Still,

So who's going ? Karma Cup this weekend, agency party next week...times are good.
:rockon: